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vhy all this restlessness ? Why this clashinnr of interest with interest 

 -of section with stetion? Why this mingling of wealth and pover- 

 . jr; of menf huzzas ami oppression's waitings; of ignoranee and 

 nowledoe ; of degrading vice and exalleil virtue ; of endless strug- 

 les after the most exalted attainments, an:l the tamest submission 

 ) indolence and physical degradation. Alas! we fear it is because 

 '6 have yet to seek out and establish a system of legislation and 

 'iucafion which will develop all the powers of man. But we ate 

 idely digressing irom our object, which is simply to offer some 

 iggestions on a subject of engrossing interest, at the present 

 'oment, in our own State; and which we are glad to find occupy- 

 g a conspicuous place in the American Journal of Agriculture 

 il Science, viz: the agricultural education of the present and 

 ng generation of our own citizens. There is, probably, at the 

 ■nt moment, a greater sacifice of time, labor and money, in 

 c cultivation (>f the soil, than in any other department of humj^n 

 i lustry. Of this, every intelligent observer is fully aware ; and 

 llnce the imperious demand which has gone forth for the speedy 

 i plication of an appropriate remedy. Through the agency of 

 Mte and county agricultural societies, an interest has been 

 rakened in this subject, which pervades, to some extent, every 

 t.vnshlp in the State. Concerning the nature of the remedy to 

 b applied, there is, also, no dispute. All agree that it consists in 

 t' application of scientific knowledge to practical farminc-. 



Cut concerning the time, phce and mode, of preparing our 

 a-icuhural population to make such application, the greatest 

 d ersity of opinion exists. One says, give us a state agricultural 

 8(ool,wiih a model farm attache I, supported from the pub'ic 

 tiasury, where the science and practice of farming can be tauo-ht 

 ai.he same time, to young men from every part of the StJte. 

 Aother says, away with your great drains on the public treasury 

 -)nly popu'arize the study of science-banish your technical 

 >. anil give us texl-books in the true vernacular tongue, and 

 ii4rict schools will be fully adequate to our wants. W'hile a 

 11 'I discards both of these, and points to the numerous acade- 

 ms distributed over the State, as the only proper place to corn- 

 mice and carry on this much needed work, 

 ^hat there is a strong and perhaps increasing feeling in favor of 

 th establishment of a well endowed State Agricultural chool 



